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Are
you
less
productive
when
working
from
home?
By
Martin
Keen,
IBM
Redbooks
Project
Leader@MartinRTP
Yahoo
has
been
in
the
news
recently
after
the
company
outlawed
working
from
home,
citing
productivity
concerns.
But
are
work-at-home
employees
really
less
productive
than
their
in-office
counterparts?
Or
do
advances
in
connectivity
and
collaboration
... [ + Read more ]

How
gamification
can
make
you
do
almost
anything
By
Martin
Keen,
IBM
Redbooks
Project
Leader
On
weekends,
my
wife
used
to
be
a
fan
of
sleeping
in
late
and
spending
her
afternoons
watching
movies.
But
then
something
changed
and
she
couldn't
sit
still.
She
watched
her
movies
while
pacing
around
the
... [ + Read more ]

By
Colleen
BurnsSocial
Media
Strategist
Happy
Social
Media
Week!
It’s
events
like
Social
Media
Week
that
keep
me
awake
all
night.
Sometimes
it
truly
is
because
of
the
amount
of
work
that
needs
to
be
done,
but
other
times
it’s
just
because
I
am
addicted
to
reading
and
reacting
... [ + Read more ]

Businesses
today
realize
the
advantages
of
using
social
capabilities
to
engage
people
inside
and
outside
the
organization
–
45
percent
plan
to
develop
a
social
policy
in
the
next
2-3
years*
–
and
yet
for
many
of
them,
the
how
of
applying
social
technology
to
drive
digital
engagement
remains
a
... [ + Read more ]

I’ll
admit
it:
I
love
the
Broncos.
I
have
since
I
was
eight
years
old
living
in
Boulder,
Colorado!
Clearly
Sunday’s
game
was
not
much
fun
for
Denver
fans
like
me
or
for
my
poor
son
who
is
now
scarred
for
life.
I
woke
up
and
said
to
myself,
“what
... [ + Read more ]

A
key
theme
in
today’s
social
world
is
that
innovative,
exceptional
customer
experiences
are
critical
to
business
success.
When
people
think
of
insurance
companies,
they
don’t
tend
to
associate
them
with
innovation
or
great
experiences.
Life
happens.
There
will
always
be
accidents,
fires
and
other
disasters.
So
how
can
an
insurance
... [ + Read more ]

Cynthya
Peranandam,
Sr.
Marketing
Manager,
Solutions
Strategy
Attending
a
TED
event
is
the
stuff
of
bucket
lists
--
an
opportunity
to
engage
with
inspirational
thinkers
about
ideas
that
can
impact
technology,
education,
design
and
innovation
to
change
the
planet.
This
year,
I
was
able
to
attend
the
event
as
it
moved
... [ + Read more ]

The
frequent
business
traveler:
A
modern
corporate
Olympian
By
Paul
Band,
IBM
Software
Services
for
Collaboration
I
sometimes
think
of
my
kind
as
a
top
class
of
athlete:
the
frequent
business
flyer.
In
this
scenario
one's
prize
could
be
bronze,
silver,
gold
or
platinum—and
the
prize
is
all
important
in
reflecting
... [ + Read more ]

By
Jacques
PavlenyiMarket
Segment
Manager
-
IBM
Collaboration
Solutions (note:
This
is
a
folllow-up
to
an
earlier
post
I
made
here
back
in
October,
“Email
is
dead!
Long
live
email!”
And
watch
this
space
for
even
more
later
this
week!) There's
a
story
that's
making
quite
an
impact
and
is
being
shared
... [ + Read more ]

Another
Super
Bowl
for
the
books.
The
Pats
took
home
the
championship
and
the
world
seems
to
care
a
little
less
about
deflated
balls.
Moving
on…February
is
the
month
that
most
of
us
celebrate
love
and
making
connections—it’s
the
perfect
time
to
focus
on
inflating
your
social
strategy.
Social
is
not
... [ + Read more ]

I
hate
to
say
it,
but
chances
are
you’re
not
living
up
to
your
creative
potential.
Now
I’m
sure
that
seems
pretty
harsh,
just
hold
those
tomatoes
and
I’ll
explain.
If
you
could
have
an
extra
eyeball
anywhere
on
your
body,
where
would
you
put
it?
If
you
said
on
the
back
... [ + Read more ]

On
the
water’s
edge
in
San
Diego
CA,
more
than
2,000
social
business
thought
leaders
and
practitioners
recently
gathered
for
two
days
at
the
Social
Media
Marketing
World
conference.
Getting
off
the
plane,
I
enjoyed
my
first
@Uber
-
a
driving
social
mobile
cloud
data
business
-
pure
awesomeness
of
user
... [ + Read more ]

Will
Social
Media
Win
the
Election?
By
Sarah
Carter,
General
Manager,
Actiance
As
I
type,
the
presidential
candidates
are
neck
and
neck
according
to
the
Wall
Street
Journal
and
I
wonder
if
social
has
won
(or
will
win)
this
election.
I
must,
in
advance,
advise
that
I’m
not
eligible
to
vote,
... [ + Read more ]

A
Marriage
of
Social
and
the
CloudBy
Bethann
Cregg,
VP,
IBM
SmartCloud
for
Social
Business
Wedding
bells
are
ringing:
we're
witness
to
the
marriage
of
social
networking
and
cloud
computing.
New
research
from
Forrester
Research
shows
online
collaboration
tools
are
increasingly
becoming
a
key
part
of
enterprise
deployments.
IBM
was
among
... [ + Read more ]